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Title: | Theorizing Discursive Resistance to Organizational Ethics of Care Through a Multi-stakeholder Perspective on Disability Inclusion Practices | Authors: | JAMMAERS, Eline | Issue Date: | 2023 | Publisher: | SPRINGER | Source: | JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, 183 (2) , p. 333-345 | Abstract: | This paper examines the support for diversity from a moral perspective. Combining business ethics theory with a lens of critical discourse analysis, it reconstructs the debates on the ethicality of three disability inclusion practices-positive discrimination, job adaptations, and voluntary disclosure-drawn from multi-stakeholder interviews in disability-friendly organizations. Discursive resistance to disability inclusion practices, otherwise known to work, arises out of moral beliefs characteristic of an ethic of justice, whereas support is more often informed by an ethic of care. This study contributes to the literature by laying bare how ethics fuel 'resistance to' rather than 'support for' diversity and inclusion. Like prior studies, it links such resistance to the myth of individual merit, noting that some re-appropriation of an ethic of justice becomes possible when legal awareness around issues of disability is raised in the context of work. In addition, it identifies an ethic of care as holding the greatest potential for fostering workplace inclusion yet cautions for two adverse side effects that may arise when promoting corporate care: the potential of paternalism and the inclination to individualise inherent to wellbeing initiatives. | Notes: | Jammaers, E (corresponding author), Hasselt Univ, Fac Business Econ, Hasselt, Belgium.; Jammaers, E (corresponding author), Catholic Univ Louvain, Louvain Res Inst Management & Org, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium. eline.jammaers@uhasselt.be |
Keywords: | Business ethics;Disability inclusion practices;Discursive resistance;Ethics of justice and care;Multi-stakeholder;Diversity management;Corporate care | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/37146 | ISSN: | 0167-4544 | e-ISSN: | 1573-0697 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10551-022-05079-0 | ISI #: | WOS:000762178600004 | Rights: | The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2023 |
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